Part 01: Theoretical Perspectives on Personality and Individual Differences
Robert R. McCrae
Chapter 1: Defining Traits
Jennifer Vonk & Taryn Eaton
Chapter 2: Personality in Nonhuman Animals: Comparative Perspectives and Applications
Robert F. Bornstein, Crista E. Maracic, & Adam P. Natoli
Chapter 3: The Psychodynamic Perspective
Jana Uher
Chapter 4: Transdisciplinary Philosophy-of-Science Paradigm for Research on Individuals: Foundations for the Science of Personality and Individual Differences
Robert Hogan & Gerhard Blickle
Chapter 5: Socioanalytic Theory: Basic Concepts, Supporting Evidence, and Practical Implications
René Mottus & Mike H. Allerhand
Chapter 6: Why Do Traits Come Together? The Underlying Trait and Network Approaches
Jessica L. Schleider & Hans S. Schroder
Chapter 7: Implicit Theories of Personality Across Development: Impacts on Coping, Resilience, and Mental Health
Sindes Dawood, Emily A. Dowgwillo, Leila Z. Wu, & Aaron L. Pincus
Chapter 8: Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory of Personality
Yael Sela & Nicole Barbaro
Chapter 9: Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality and Individual Differences
Part 02: Research Strategies for Studying Personality and Individual Differences
Cornelia Wrzus, Martin Quintus, & Anna Baumert
Chapter 10: Measuring Personality Processes in the Lab and the Field
Brenda L. Connors, Carol-Lynne Moore, Richard Rende, & Timothy J. Colton
Chapter 11: Movement Pattern Analysis (MPA): Decoding Individual Differences in Embodied Decision Making
Gregory Francis
Chapter 12: The Various Roles of Replication in Scientific Research
Michela Schröder-Abé & Ramzi Fatfouta
Chapter 13: Implicit Measures
Mario Wenzel & Thomas Kubiak
Chapter 14: Ambulatory Monitoring and Ambulatory Assessment in Personality Research
Christopher S. Nave, Michael G. Feeney, & R. Michael Furr
Chapter 15: Behavioral Observation in the Study of Personality and Individual Differences
Cindy K. Chung & James W. Pennebaker
Chapter 16: What Do We Know When We LIWC a Person? Text Analysis as an Assessment Tool for Traits, Personal Concerns, and Life Stories
Steffen Nestler
Chapter 17: Longitudinal Data Analysis for Personality Psychologists
Kevin Lanning, Sonia Baron, & Gregory D. Webster
Chapter 18: The network structure of personality psychology: What the SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences tells us about the nature of the field
Part 03: The Measurement of Personality and Individual Differences
Zara E. Wright & Robert F. Krueger
Chapter 19: Pathological Personality Traits: The Movement Toward Dimensional Approaches to Psychopathology
Gilles E. Gignac
Chapter 20: Conceptualizing and Measuring Intelligence
Kai T. Horstmann, John F. Rauthmann, & Ryne A. Sherman
Chapter 21: Measurement of Situational Influences
David K. Marcus & Alyssa L. Norris
Chapter 22: Taxometric Analysis
Miranda Giacomin & Christian H. Jordan
Chapter 23: Within-Person Variability in Narcissism
Jeremy C. Biesanz
Chapter 24: Interpersonal Perception Models
Joyce H. L. Lui, Christopher T. Barry, & Katrina H. McDougall
Chapter 25: Accounting for Socially Desirable Responding in Personality Assessment
John F. Edens, David DeMatteo, Shannon E. Kelley, & Shelby Arnold
Chapter 26: Personality Assessment in Forensic Psychology
Beth A. Visser & Stephanie Campbell
Chapter 27: Measuring the Dark Side of Personality
Maciej Stolarski, Nicolas Fieulaine, & Philip G. Zimbardo
Chapter 28: Putting Time in a Wider Perspective: The Past, the Present, and the Future of Time Perspective Theory